OregonFlora species comparison

erect to ascending or decumbent, usually strigose to occasionally villous, becoming woolly distally, sometimes minutely glandular.

persistent, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 20–150 × 2–10 mm;

margins entire, usually with 3 distinct basal veins;

tips usually rounded to acute or acuminate;

surfaces strigose to hirsute, eglandular.

gradually to abruptly reduced distally, sometimes becoming linear and bract-like.

4–6 × 8–15 mm.

20–45, white to purple;

rays 3–8 × 0.8–2.5 mm.

corollas 3–4 mm.

in 2–3 series;

surfaces sparsely sericeous to densely villous, sometimes minutely glandular.

2–3 mm, glabrate to remotely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

1–3 in scape- or corymb-like arrays, radiate.